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Teacher Education and the Political - The power of negative thinking (Paperback)
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Teacher Education and the Political - The power of negative thinking (Paperback)
Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
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Teacher Education and the Political is a striking book which
addresses the nature and purpose of teacher education in a global
context characterised by economic and political anxieties around
declining productivity and social inclusion. These anxieties are
manifested in recent policy developments such as the promotion of
professional standards, the deregulation and marketisation of
teacher education and the imposition of performance-related regimes
that tie teachers' pay to outcomes in high-stakes testing. The book
assesses the implications of such policies for the work of teachers
as well as for teacher educators and those undertaking initial
teacher training. It is argued that these policy moves can be read
as a depoliticising and de-intellectualising of teacher education.
In this context, they illustrate how contemporary theory can
provide a language for critiquing recent developments and imagining
new trajectories for policy and practice in teacher education.
Drawing on the work of theorists from Derrida and Mouffe to Agamben
and Lacan, this book argues for the need to maintain a space for
intellectual autonomy as a critical dimension of the
ethico-political work of teachers. Together these ideas and
analyses provide examples of the power of negative thinking,
illustrating its capacity to unsettle comfortable truths and
foreground the political nature of teacher education. Current
teachers, teacher educators and school leaders will be particularly
interested readers, alongside those concerned with policy in the
wider educational landscape.
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